By Fan Pen Li Chen
Marionette puppet theater has a wealthy and old historical past in China, extending again to the Han dynasty and attaining its heyday within the Qing dynasty. whereas this artwork shape is almost extinct in northern China this present day, a handful of troupes in Heyang County in Shaanxi Province, which claims to be the birthplace of marionette theater, proceed to accomplish skits and scenes from Heyang’s prior, broader marionette theater repertoire. during this booklet, Fan Pen Li Chen has accumulated and translated infrequent transcriptions of a few of the preferred of those performs. Her insightful translations contain a wealthy number of genres and spotlight memorable characters that diversity from manipulative aristocrats, terrible Confucian students, and a lady warrior to Baldy Guo, the long-lasting clown of puppet theater. because the purely paintings in English in regards to the puppet theater of northern China, those translations supply important information regarding the background, faith, social roles, and pop culture of that sector. particular introductions and annotations for every play, in addition to an in depth bibliography, also are included.
Fan Pen Li Chen is affiliate Professor of East Asian stories on the college at Albany, kingdom collage of recent York. She is the writer of Chinese Shadow Theatre: background, well known faith, and girls Warriors and Visions for the hundreds: chinese language Shadow performs from Shaanxi and Shanxi.
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